Project Divided is working to bring people of different political views and backgrounds to the table to have difficult conversations about politics.
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Casey Moore and Marley Duchovnay recently went to Texas and brought people from different backgrounds to have conversations about politics. They're using the footage they filmed to develop a 10-episode web series called Project Divided.
Check out our video interview with the Delaware News Journal Here!
"People love to watch the car crash" of divisive politics. But Project Divided co-founders Casey Moore and Marley Duchovnay also believe most Americans want similar things and cannot be easily categorized by political labels.
Check out our interview with KUT Austin here.
Smithville is a small town, of approximately 4,000 people, in a rural county of Central Texas. In a town this small, people ask questions—especially when you’re the new kid in town, and especially when they find out that you want to talk politics. The most frequent questions that we receive have ranged from, “So why did you move to Texas?” to, “Do you really not want to change people’s minds?” to, “No really, how did you end up in Smithville?” From our work of talking to anyone and everyone interested in speaking with us, we’re now frequently referred to around town as ‘those girls who talk to people’.
This graphic explains how the majority of Americans do not identify with ideology on the “wings”, but that in fact, 77% percent of Americans believe that our differences are not so great that we cannot come together to find common ground
In an experiment, 526 voters from across the ideological spectrum spent a weekend last month together talking to politics, with little bickering and no partisan labels.
Righteous incivility. The temptation to be uncivil grows as public discourse gets nastier and more aggressive. Can rudeness ever be righteous?
Research has shown that liberals and conservatives tend to view morality through different lenses. While liberals tend to place more emphasis on "harm vs. care" and "fairness vs. cheating", conservatives are more likely to base morality on a combination of all five foundations.
"This intense polarization changes the way we think, the way we talk, and most importantly, the way we listen." Check out this article by Will Holcomb on the hyper-polarization in the United States.
Polarization affects everything from our health and stress levels to the loss of trust in our government and institutions.
Polarization is not the same as disagreement. Polarization means refusing to live next to a neighbor who doesn't share our politics and listening only to news channels that reinforce our own political views. Polarization is where "negotiation and compromise are perceived as betrayal" and when we cluster ourselves in groups that compete against each rather than working together for the common good.
